Combined cutting-gage and marker



(No Model.)

A. A. WALDIE. COMBINED CUTTING GAGE AND MARKER.

No. 508,453, Patented Nov. 14,1893. T

A MOLWM izimm v m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE A. WALDIE, E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBlN ED,CUTTl NG-GA.GE AND MARKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,453, dated November14, 1893.

Application filed May 13,1893. Serial No. 474.144. (N0 model.)

I To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANNIE A. WALDIE, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvementsin a Combined Cutting-Gage and: Marker; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive andeffective device which can beeasily adjusted to anyordinary scissors andused for accurately cutting and marking cloth,.paper or other material.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmyapparatus as attached to a pair of scissors in the manner adapted forsimultaneously cutting and marking. Fig. 2, represents a perspectiveView of my apparatus attached to apair of scissors in the manner adaptedfor cutting material in a line parallel with its margin, and Fig.3'represents a screw bolt and nuts by meansof which the apparatus isattached to the scissors.

In all the figures similar parts are designated by the same letters. 7

O is a metal plate or bar, provided near one end with a circular holeadapted to'receive the screw bolt 13., and attached at the other When inuse, the device is attached to any ordinary scissors orv shears, bysubstituting the screw-bolt B and nut H for the screw-bolt commonly usedto fasten together the scissors or shears, passing the projecting end ofthis bolt B. through the hole in the bar 0, and clamping the wholetogether by means of the jam nut J. To serve this purpose, it will beseen that the bolt B, must be long enough to pass through the blades ofthe scissors, the

material to be cut evenly upon a table, ex-

tending the arm .DE to the required length, and passing the lower bladeof the scissors, and the arm DE, under the material in such positionthat the edge of the material is in contact with the gage-plate F, asshown in Fig. 2, in which K. K. represent the edge or'margin of thematerial which is kept constantly against the gage F, as the cuttingprogresses.

In using the device as a marker, the arm DE, is thrown above thematerial as shown in Fig. 1, a pencil or crayon G. is inserted in themarker F., and as the cutting progresses along the line X-Y a line X"Y',parallel therewith is traced upon the material by the pencil or crayon.

It will be seen that theloose hinge by which the bar 0, is joined to thearm DE, permits the latter to remain constantly upon the ta- .ble orcloth, without being alternately elevatedand depressed by the motion ofthe scissors.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combined cutting gage and marker formed by the bar 0, attached tothe adjustable arm'DE,by a hinged joint, in combination with the gageplate or marker F, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this f'speciticat-ion in thepresence-of two subscribing witnesses.

ANNIE -A. WALDIE. Witnesses:

GEO. W. HUNT, AGNES R. KEHOE.

